Modern Warfare (Call of Duty)

Creator(s): Infinity Ward | Release: 2007-2011, 2019-Present

Modern Warfare is a sub-series of the Call of Duty series that serves as a departure from the World War II setting of previous entries. Each entry in the series builds upon the previous entry with recurring characters—most notably Captain Price and Soap.

• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)

• Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish (2011) is a short film and prequel to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011)

Modern Warfare runs on the IW (Infinity Ward) game engine which was upgraded with each subsequent entry.

• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) utilized the IW 3.0 engine

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) utilized the IW 4.0 engine

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011) utilized the IW 5.0 engine (also known as the MW3 engine)

Notable Design Implementations

• The campaign features cinematic style events that occur during gameplay and in-game making the whole experience dynamic.

• Some campaign levels have the player control other characters with levels solely dedicated to event gameplay as opposed to solely gunfights.

• Best missions across the whole series:

  • MW1: “Crew Expendable”, “All Ghillied Up”, “Mile High Club”

  • MW2: “Cliffhanger”, “The Gulag”, “Second Sun”, “Whiskey Hotel”, “Loose Ends”, “Endgame”

  • MW3: “Turbulence”, “Return to Sender”, “Iron Lady”, “Dust to Dust”

A reboot of the series was released starting in 2019, however it is not as well-received as the original trilogy

• Modern Warfare (2019)

• Modern Warfare II (2022)

• Modern Warfare III (2023)